Categories of Space and Time of the Concept “Reindeer Breeding” (in Even and Evenki)

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10.2991/mplg-ia-19.2019.2How to use a DOI?

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concept, reindeer breeding, locality, temporality, Even, Evenki

Abstract

In the context of development of cognitive linguistics, the concept “reindeer breeding” must be regarded more extensive, namely, as a basic category of being for most indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia, and Russian Far East. Using the cognitive approach, its conceptual content must be addressed. Since conceptual, evaluative, and figurative components of the concept depend on specific feature of a particular linguoculture, it is important to investigate the concept in terms of linguoculturology, including inquiries into related languages, such as Even and Evenki. The mechanism of cognitive perception of space and time is complex, actively structuring our sensations, forming sensory images according to their objective prototypes and psycho-physiological characteristics of the human sensory apparatus as well as intellectual, emotional, and worldview background of the subject. The present study is devoted to studying categories of space and time of the concept “reindeer breeding” as a universal basic concept, serving as a key to comprehending perception, understanding of the world, and the worldview of the Even and the Evenki, representation of the linguistic picture of the world of Northern nomads. The core of the concept “reindeer breeding” includes a few characteristics relevant for linguistic consciousness of the Even and the Evenki. In Even оран means ‘reindeer’, дэлмичэ ‘herd’, оҥучин/оҥучон ‘pasturage of reindeer’, нулгэнмэй (нулгэдэк) ‘territory where nomads roam’, өримкэн/өрикит ‘nomad camp’. Respectively, in Evenki: орон means ‘reindeer’, сэсин (авду) ‘herd’, оҥковукит (тэнчэкит) ‘pasturage of reindeer’, нулгиктэкит ‘territory where nomads roam’, урикит ‘nomad camp’. The subject of research are the categories of space and time (locality and temporality), field arrangement of the concept “reindeer breeding” in Even and Evenki. The category of locality is a complex of means at various levels that are arranged as a field. It reflect certain variants of location in language: event-situational, event-dynamic, object-relative, subject-relative, and parametric. The category of locality is seme arranged, i.e. linguistic units are included in the field of locality based on the archeseme “place, space”. Locative meanings are graded in language: the core with the seme of space (place), the close periphery with the seme of locality (space statics), the far periphery with the seme of parametrics (shape, size, dimension, extent, distance). Space denotations and relations are differentiated and interact in linguistic representation. The category of locality is closely related to the category of temporality in the linguistic picture of the world as space and time as opposite universal categories of being are characterized as a dialectical unity in their interrelation. Temporality is a category that defines implementation of time relations in language. In linguistics, the category of temporality is investigated in grammar (traditionally), synsemantic, cognitive branch of linguistics, communicative and functional grammar.

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AU  - Ekaterina Krivoshapkina
AU  - Svetlana Prokopieva
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BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Man-Power-Law-Governance: Interdisciplinary Approaches (MPLG-IA 2019)
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